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EXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Monroe's Drug Secret Exposed in Never-Before-Heard Tapes — How Bombshell's Ex-Husband 'Foresaw' Her Death

Arthur Miller recalls rushing doctors after she 'swallowed enough… to kill her.'

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Aaron Tinney
May 08, 2026
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Marilyn Monroe’s struggles with drugs and mental health were so severe her ex-husband Arthur Miller believed for years the Hollywood icon would inevitably die young.

The shock claim is contained in newly uncovered recordings in which the playwright described desperately trying to save the actress after a near-fatal overdose.

Photo of Marilyn Monroe

Tapes recorded in conversations between Miller and his friend and biographer Professor Christopher Bigsby offer an intimate and often painful account of Miller’s marriage to Monroe.

The pair married in 1956 and divorced in January 1961, just 18 months before Monroe died aged 36 from a barbiturates overdose in August 1962.

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